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The New Republic magazine, once described as the flight magazine of Air Force One, is being sold again, this time to Chris Hughes, a founder of Facebook who also ran President Obama’s online campaign in 2008, write Brian Stelter and Michael de la Merced. Mr. Hughes will focus his energies on the tablet version of the magazine, which will continue its print version. “Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of The New Republic readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet,” he said. Richard Just will remain the editor.

Production of the popular telenovelas is shifting from Mexico to Miami, Amy Chozick writes, turning the city into a “telenovela Tinseltown.” The big reasons: U.S. Hispanics want to see dramas that touch on their lives here and Telemundo and Univision want to capitalize on advertising and sponsorship opportunities. Another reason: telenovela stars are happy to be away from the violence in Mexico. “Actors have told me ‘I don’t want my kids being kidnapped in my country,’ ” said Roberto Stopello, vice president for novela development at Telemundo.

More details are emerging about the hacker Hector Xavier Monsegur, known as Sabu, who turned informant on many of his former comrades in Anonymous. According to N.R. Kleinfeld and Somini Sengupta, Mr. Monsegur led a double life: while trying to cripple foreign governments and creep into the machinery of multinational corporations, he was living large in a New York project, where his late-night parties kept the neighbors awake. “A defensive-lineman-size man known as Booby, he was raising the two young children of his imprisoned aunt in a public housing project. Court documents showed that Mr. Monsegur, 28, paid bills with stolen credit cards and dabbled in drug sales. In one neighborly gesture, he offered to use his hacking skills to sweeten other tenants’ credit ratings.”